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    Boston College Master Plan

    The mods were low rent when they were 'built' and they are low rent now. BC aspires to be included among the top colleges yet continues to make some poor decisions regarding campus development, something, by the way, that is one of the 'top priorities' in its 'grand scheme'. What do they not get...
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    Boston College Master Plan

    Anyone have pictures of progress on the new basketball facility?
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    Boston College Master Plan

    "daring" does not equal 'advisable'. Aren't there enough 'big box' stores to fill that sort of need? Or am I being 'human' instead of 'bot'...
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    Boston College Master Plan

    Really! Brutalism or International Style -- whatever it is -- where did they find these so-called architects?! Wait...or is this the 'brainchild' of AI?!!
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    Boston College Master Plan

    What is it about the "brutalism" (apparently it is actually in the 'International Style', but, yes, it does look 'brutal' to me) of O'Neill that you Like?
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    Boston College Master Plan

    Sorry, I am having a heck of a time trying to create a link from that webpage. Got any suggestions?
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    Boston College Master Plan

    Would anybody like to comment on this...?
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    Boston College Master Plan

    Long time no updates. Anybody have recent progress on doings at BC? Yesterday I ran across a "study" rendition for a gothic façade on O'Neill Library by David M Owens, architect. This will only cover the side facing Gasson. I guess the rest will remain as is. I don't have the link but if you...
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    Boston College Master Plan

    I wonder how those orange things are used...
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    Boston College Master Plan

    BC has installed new video cameras on its webpage to view progress on the new playing fields and the new rec center. I imagine the fields will be completed by the next fall term. The rec center is scheduled to open in September, 2018, I believe.
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    Boston College Master Plan

    "Edwards Hall is completely gone as of a few weeks ago." You might say that it was never even there! (the name was Edmonds Hall) ;)
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    Boston College Master Plan

    Any photo updates on the progress here...?
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    Boston College Master Plan

    I see no provision for a tennis facility on the Lake Street campus. I know, I know, the plan calls for 3 (wow, really?!) courts in the new rec center to be used by the varsity -- hahahahahahaha -- good luck with that! Ironic that the two parking lots between the projected baseball and softball...
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    Boston College Master Plan

    "Now if Edmunds Hall was St. Edmunds Hall at Oxford... we wouldn't be taking it down" Not so sure about that. Recall what became of Alumni Hall and the Philomathia Club -- very nice examples of period architecture -- here one day, gone the next... Why couldn't they have been relocated? Some of...
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    Boston College Master Plan

    West - I am disappointed, too, in the details of how they are building students residences -- and also in the massive scaling! -- which is really the antithesis of the humanist ideal. And, for a college that promotes and identifies itself with the 'humanities' (let's hear it for Stokes Hall!) it...
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    Boston College Master Plan

    Even with "vines" you need good architecture underneath. Vines are the 'garnish', if you will, but architecture is the 'meal'! To those who would denigrate BC for adopting a 'Disney-like', neo-gothic theme, you would have to include many, many other colleges and universities guilty of that --...
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    Boston College Master Plan

    Re: Boston College Master Plan debut Hmm, Neo-Renaissance palazzo with 21st Century glass addition stuck on it. What an aesthetic contrast! I would have stuck with the palazzo...
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    Boston College Master Plan

    Re: Boston College Master Plan debut St. Mary's Hall is looking better than ever with its restoration, and there's an interesting looking "courtyard" on the northeast side, atop a new below-grade parking garage. Can only see it by a webcam on the BC site. Wonder if anybody has seen it and has...
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    Boston College Master Plan

    Re: Boston College Master Plan debut Italian?! That's a breeze compared to the statistics course I took in Carney! May I strike the match...? Seriously, besides being an aesthetic wasteland, how is it that its one redeeming feature, the grassy courtyard formed by the three-sided building...
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    Boston College Master Plan

    Re: Boston College Master Plan debut Reliable inside sources have told me that Carney will be next to go down (in the near future), to be replaced by a collegiate gothic style dining hall, with, possibly, a cathedral ceiling. McElroy will be replaced sometime down the road with yet another...

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